Masuda Akari

"Probably, I still don't understand 0048 completely, but I'll try my best."

Masuda Akari is one of the current understudies of AKB0048 as member of the 151st generation. She is also known as Akari (あカり). Her catchphrase is I still believe in miracles ".

Apparance
Akari has dark brown hair and amber colored eyes. She wears her hair down with a small tail. Like every member of AKB0048, she has heart shaped sparkle in her hair and eyes.

Usually, Akari wears grey clothes with red accessories, because grey and red are her favourite colors. She likes feminine but also simple clothes. Despite of this, she wears usually loose clothes home.

Personality
Akari is very well behaved and towards strangers she behaves politely. Actually this isn't her regular self. She is a happy, playful girl. Sometimes, she is mischevious. She wants to stand in the center but this shown rare.

In the past, Akari was arrogant. She stopped with beeing this, because she understood, that she was wrong with AKB0048. Because of this, she often listens to others, when they talk about AKB0048.

When she first arrived on the Flying Get, she was a bit shy, because she didn't knew exactly what she should do. There, it also was shown, that she doesn't knows much about AKB0048. She didn't know, that Aoi, Ai and Mariko were members.

Past
Akari grew up in the faith, AKB0048 is evil and bad. Because of this, she doesn't know much about 0048.

Auddition
Some of Akaris friends wanted to auddition when the 150th generation was open. This was something, Akari didn't want, so she threatened that she would tell this to the D.G.T.O. Her friends didn't want this more than audditon. When the audditions of the 151st Generation started, her friends tried again to auddition. This time, they threatened Akari. They said, that they would tell the D.G.T.O. that she wanted to auddition, if she would say anything. At least, Akari audditioned too without wanting it. On the way to the Audditions, she and her friends were attacked by the DES. Some WOTA saved them and took them to the Flying Get. On the way, Akari saw the first time Entertainment though some videos of AKB0048. She started to lvoe it from the beginn of the video. The heart-shaped sparkles appeared then. From this on, she wanted to become an Understudy.

River Selection
When she arrived on the Flying Get and knew about the Selection, Akari already had decided, that she would participle. Despite she was very scared of the battle, she tried to face forward. After a not so great conversation with Ashley, she met Miru and became something like friends with her.

Later, she was together with Ashley, Zoey and Miru in the Micsaber group and trained with Miku. When Hikari announced the break, the girls went together to the canteen. There, the girls sat on the table were the members were. Akari was suprised, that those girls were the members. She didn't knew this.

Aleenstar
Aleenstar (アレンスター, Arensutā) is a planet in the Carros System (カロス-星系, Karosu seikei). The world is under the entertainment ban but in diffrent to other planets, mostly every inhabitant of Aleenstar is also against AKB0048. The planet is very modern but still has nature. On Aleenstar, the apparance is very important. The captial is named Miare City (ミアレシティ)

Some people write Aleenstar as "Alleenstar" or "Allenstar"

Relationships

 * -|Successors =
 * Shibuya Komari - Sempai; She met her while a break of the selection training.
 * -|150th Generation =
 * Takayama Ai - Sempai; She met her while a break of the selection training.
 * Hoshimiya Aoi - Sempai; She met her while a break of the selection training.
 * -|151st Generation =
 * Ashley Snow - Fellow Kenkyuusei; Her first impression of Ashley was that she is quite open. Currently, she doesn't like her, because she just turned away while a conversation with Akari.
 * Asahina Miru - Fellow Kenkyuusei; The girls met eachother while the second selection round. Akari likes Miru a lot. She calls her Miruru.
 * Kashita Miyagi - Fellow Kenkyuusei; She met her while a break of the selection training. Akari isn't shure how she should think about her home planet.
 * Zoey Bright - Fellow Kenkyuusei; She met her while a break of the selection training.
 * Miyabi Honoka - Fellow Kenkyuusei; She met her while a break of the selection training.
 * -|Her family=
 * Her father - Akari's father is an ex-DES-soldir who now runs a little shop. He was a regular DES-Soldir and nothing special. He still hates AKB0048. Until she "diappeared" and appeared then as member of AKB0048, he was very proud on her. Both liked eachother.
 * Her mother - Akari's mother also runs the shop and is against AKB0048. She is still a bit proud on Akari.

Etymology
Masuda (増田) means increase rice field. The name was chosen, because of the fact that it is the surname of Millyna's favourite game designer, Jun'nichi Masuda.

Akari (明かり) can mean light or glimmer.

Quotes
" 0048 is just amazing, right? It's a long story, why I'm here. " - Stage One 2.0: Kenkyuusei Dreams

"I knew, that 0048 let miracles happen, but that is amazing! We can let every dream coem true! I still believed in miracles and I was right!"

"All is right. She will make it. At least, I still believe in miracles."

Songs

 * Yume o sagasu - Her image Song

Trivia

 * Hobbies: Reading, history
 * Audition Song: Kyou made no Melody
 * Favorite Color: red, grey
 * Favorite Animal: Birds, esspacily owls
 * Favourite Food: paprika, diffrent things with pepper, tomatos
 * Favourite Season: Late spring
 * Favorite AKB stage song: Tenohira, Cross
 * Favorite AKB outfit: AKB0048 Senbatsu Uniform
 * Likes: Red things, History
 * Special Talents: to persuade people, learning the history of things
 * Future ambition: She wants to be a voice actress (Seiyuu) in the future. She also wants to live on Akibastar.
 * She is farsighted.
 * She wants a little brother.
 * She preferes dancing over singing.
 * She has no fashion sense.
 * The Kanji 田 is also used in Kashita Miyagi's name. In her name, it is pronounciated as "da" but in Miyagi's name as "ta"
 * Her favourite subject is history.
 * She is very good in this subject. She can lean history of 50 years in only a week perfect.
 * The capital of Aleenstar is basicing on Lumiose City of Pokémon XY. The name Miare City is the japanese name of Lumiose City.
 * She was the only one of her friends with heart-shaped shadows.
 * Her Kirara looks simlilar to the Kirara of the 9th Oshima Yuko. She named it Notes.
 * Akari's Seiyuu is Yu Serizawa, a member of the Idol group i*Ris, who also voiced Minami Mirei and Fukuhara Ann in the Pretty Rhythm Series.
 * Another member of i*Ris voices Asahina Miru. This member voiced Manaka Lalaa in the series.